Category Archives: population genetics

Evolution 2013 Recap

Posted on 27 Jun, 2013 by kimgilbert

As we all slowly trickle back from the recent SSE meeting in Snowbird, we’ll each be posting our own thoughts and summaries of the conference. I personally had a fantastic time, met a lot of great people, and saw a … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: The origins of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, GWAS of "educational attainment", and the trouble with impact metrics

Posted on 31 May, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Hardy, G.H. 1908. Mendelian proportions in a mixed population. Science 28: 49. doi: 10.1126/science.28.706.49. Suppose that Aa is a pair of Mendelian characters, A being dominant, and that in any given generation the numbers of pure dominants … Continue reading →

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Relentless Evolution: The vital relevance of the visible

Posted on 28 May, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. One of Stephen Jay Gould’s sharpest conceptual coinages was a barb leveled, from his paleontological perspective, at the body of research focused on bouts of adaptive … Continue reading →

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Hitchhiking microbes

Posted on 12 Mar, 2013 by kimgilbert

It is quite clear that humans play a major role in altering ecosystems today. Historic migration of human populations has been shown to have many interesting associated evolutionary consequences1,2. Worldwide travel makes it difficult to stop anything from going anywhere, … Continue reading →

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STACKS: A program for identifying and genotyping loci with next-generation sequencing data

Posted on 15 Jan, 2013 by Mark Christie

If you have recently collected or are in the process of collecting next-generation sequencing data, then you may be wondering what the next step to working with your data will entail.  Hopefully, you have been working a little bit with … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 4 Jan, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the first weekend of the new year, here’s a few things we’ve seen that might be worth your screen-time: In the journals Nicholson, W.L., Krivushin, K., Gilichinsky, D. & Schuerger, A.C. 2012. Growth of Carnobacterium spp. … Continue reading →

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Molecular Ecology Online Forum, 2012

Posted on 24 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

Welcome to the Molecular Ecologist Online Forum, which brings together panelists from the Molecular Ecologist Symposium at the Ottawa 2012 Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology to continue that meeting’s fruitful discussion. (Video and slides from that symposium are available online … Continue reading →

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Linux: the glue that binds your next-generation sequencing analyses

Posted on 16 Oct, 2012 by Mark Christie

Would you like to use same operating system as 92% of the top 500 super computers?  Do you dig Japanese bullet trains, NASA, or the financial awesomeness that is the New York Stock Exchange?  Do you hate having to shell … Continue reading →

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Best Practices for Scientific Computing…And Molecular Ecology?

Posted on 9 Oct, 2012 by peterfields

Source: http://xkcd.com/292 *Update* Best Practices in Computing has now been published in PLoS Biology! Computers and computational techniques have significantly advanced the molecular ecologist’s toolbox for answering interesting and complex questions about a range of biological systems,  model or otherwise. Imagine, … Continue reading →

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Genes … in … space!

Posted on 25 Sep, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s something of a classic result in human population genomics: Go out and genotype thousands of people at thousands of genetic markers. (This is getting easier to do every day.) Then summarize the genetic variation at your thousands of markers … Continue reading →

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